Adam Richards, MD, MPH

Adam Richards, MD, MPH, is a fellow in the American Heart
Association-Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research
Center at University
of California, Los
Angeles. He joined the PHR board in May 2009.

Dr. Richards applies his training in internal
medicine, epidemiology and health services to develop measurement tools and
evidence-based interventions to improve community health worker effectiveness
among migrant populations. As a program team member and advisory board member
of the Global Health Access Program since 2001, Dr. Richards provides technical
assistance to community-based organizations working among displaced and war-affected
populations in Burma. Areas of work
include human resource development, cross-border malaria control and
surveillance, nutrition, and health information systems that have quantified
population-level exposure to human rights violations and their association with
mortality, morbidity, and specific health outcomes.

Dr. Richards' domestic research focuses on
the intersection of clinically-oriented and population-based approaches to the
social determinants of health, and the application of emerging technologies to
community-partnered surveillance of health outcomes among immigrant workers.

Dr. Richards is board certified in internal
medicine, and graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
and the Bloomberg School of Public Health before completing his postgraduate
training in the Social Internal Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical
Center/Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the South
Bronx. His undergraduate studies in history and literature at Harvard College afforded an opportunity for
in-depth exploration of the African-American experience.

In addition to his
general internal medicine practice and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Richards
applies his medical skills to the treatment survivors of torture and
individuals seeking asylum in the United States.